NEC has announced the provision of a facial recognition demo system utilizing Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), a network architecture concept for next-generation communications, to Docomo 5G Open Lab Okinawa, a 5G technology verification center established in Okinawa prefecture on January 9 and run by NTT Docomo.

The Polish Ministry of Digitisation has announced that at the end of December 2018, the government notified the European Commission of the need to postpone the deadline for the assignment of radio resources in the 700 MHz band freed up by TV broadcasters for mobile broadband, reports Telko.in.

Japanese telco KDDI (au) and Samsung Electronics of South Korea have carried out two new trials of 5G technology in the capital Tokyo, one involving the transmission of 4K ultra-high-definition (UHD) surveillance video on a train platform and the other testing 5G functionalities to deploy ultra-fast communications at an elementary school.